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with sedition', 'leading a country-wide simultaneous popular uprising' by the right-wing regime headed by presiChon came to power in May after the South Korean state was shaken by a series of mass revolts. He has ruled by martial law ever since. The trial of Kim Dae Jung is particularly significant because, more than any other bourgeois politician, he is associated with the fight for democratic rights in Chon has told reporters that the trial will be 'fair and open', but when it began on 17 August Kim told a different story. He described how he had been 'kept incommunicado' by the government, and had 'suffered mental torment beyond description during lengthy prison questioning by the military authorities'. Kim was questioned from 9am to midnight for 60 days. He was only allowed access to a lawyer The Chon regime has been backed by both the Japanese QUOTE of the week comes from Lillian Carter, mother of the most famous brothers since rrank and Jesse james Lillian was asked where Billy — he's the one who isn't president — had got to. She replied: 'Wherever there's trouble -Sometimes when I look at all my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a A MASSIVE anti-government demonstration filled the streets of Santiago last Thursday — the first major protest since President Pinochet seized power seven years ago.
The demonstration came after a huge crowd, said to number 'tens of thousands' by the International Herald Tribune, was stopped by riot police from entering a political rally given by former Chilean President Eduardo Frei. The rally had been called to denounce Pinochet's proposed new constitution, which would keep him in power until at least After being refused admission the crowd took to the streets, chanting slogans against Pinochet, singing and waving burning paper. Police attacked sections of the march, and according to some reports a number of bricks were hurlBy A Kahn and A Shah On Sunday 24 August modest, but step taken workers in Britain.
Pakistani transport number of cities met in the morning to draft constitution and aims of the Pakistani Association (PWA).
five-person committee was prepare the ference of the PWA for the winter of this year.
The committee consists of Abid Shah T&GWU, (AUEW), Raja Iqbal Tariq Ali.
On Sunday public meeting in Digbeth Hall was attended by over a hundred Pakistani speakers included Karamat Ali, trade-union Pakistan, Shahid Nadeem from the Committee Democratic and Non-Aligned Raja G&MWU Convenor at BICC, East London, Sighat Kadri, president of the Standing Committee of Pakistani Organisations and Tariq Ali, from the PWA.
crucial first towards Pakistani A founding meeting of engineering and workers from approve the Workers' Ahad Aziz Mian, workers. The militant from for Iqbal, The stated, workers.
fight for such a unity.' He and if organised on a non-sectarian basis could receive widespread support. He pledged that as a lawyer he would urge Asian lawyers to aid those workers who needed legal aid.
Tariq Ali explained the aims organisation. I hope', 'that this will be an organisation which will struggle for the solidarity of all black We look forward to the day that all black workers organised organisation and the PWA will TENS of thousands of Pakistani workers toil in the different sections of British industry. We work in the car factories in the Midlands and in London; the textile industry; on the buses and in the underground; in engineering and on the railways and in numerous service industries (such as Heathrow Airport).
We face countless problems. workers we are subjected to the everyday exploitation of a capitalist system in crisis. But the fact that we are black makes life even more of a grind. The bosses deny us our rights in many factories and get away with it because of shopfloor racism and because the unions refuse to act on our behalf. The failure of the unions to wage a fight against racism within their own ranks aids the bosses because they can divide the workers on the basis of colMany of our fellow Asian workers are organised in Indian Workers' Associations (IWAs). organisation which can help us combat the problems we confront in everyday life. We have no one who can help us to organise our strength in the unions in order to fight exploitation on every level. That is why we need our own organisation The aims (slightly abbreviated): 1. The PWA is open to all Pakistani workers regardless of caste, creed, or colour. 2. The PWA will support all those in Pakistan who are fighting to free themselves from the chains of capitalism and the fetters of Landlordism. 3. The PWA will fight against any harassment inflicted on our community regardless of the form it takes. 4. The PWA will fight for the right of our children to learn their own languages in schools. 5. The PWA will fight within the community for equal rights for women. It will make a special effort to recruit women trades unionists to the PWA.
A full copy of the constitution and statement of aims can be obtained from Abid Shah at the address given above Together with white We have no — the Pakistani Workers' Association.
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CONSTITUTION AND STATEMENT OF AIMS OF THE PAKISTANI WORKERS' ASSOCIATION